Three Weeks

Last week we concentrated all our training on exam review. It was the easiest part of the test, and we already knew it quite well. When we couldn't work together, we worked on our own. Madeline and I both successfully recorded our performance on Saturday of the first week.

This week the material is much, much harder, and there is more of it. This is the hardest part of the exam.

Again, we worked together as much as possible, and alone when we couldn't. Thursday I was in the hospital getting a gastroscopy and a colonoscopy, and still made it to the evening's training. I had to.

Today is Friday, and we had time for two attempts at making a successful recording. Madeline went first with me as her partner. We made it through everything without a major mistake. There were a couple of minor ones, so our instructor decided it wasn't acceptable.

No big deal. We took about ten minutes to recover, and did it all over again.

This time I made a significant error, but Madeline handled it without missing a beat. We made it almost to the end of the exam sequence, and Madeline made a test-stopping mistake.

We were out of time.

We meet again tomorrow to continue the effort. Our instructor has family commitments, so we can only have him for an hour. That's enough time for three attempts, tops.

Madeline is very good. I am confident she will get it done, perhaps with a single attempt. Even so, the chance of me producing a successful effort within the remaining time are quite slim.

We have arranged more mat time on Monday, to either finish recording this week's segment, or to start working on the final technical section.

Again, we practice all week and do the recordings on Friday and Saturday.

There has to be a better way.